(comdev-events-site) branch main updated: Strip HTML from event link

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     new 772cb4f  Strip HTML from event link
772cb4f is described below

commit 772cb4f21481c19fa236a294d180da7d7892d93d
Author: Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Jun 15 15:37:34 2026 -0400

    Strip HTML from event link
    
    The Google Calendar UI will often add HTML to the event link. The
    javascript expects just a plain text URL with no markup. This patch
    makes it work in both cases.
---
 static/js/events-calendar.js | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/static/js/events-calendar.js b/static/js/events-calendar.js
index 0cef93f..c2f2541 100644
--- a/static/js/events-calendar.js
+++ b/static/js/events-calendar.js
@@ -38,10 +38,16 @@ $.ajax({
              var link = null;
              if (ev.description) {
                 var line1 = ev.description.split("\n")[0];
-                if (line1.slice(0,7) === "http://"; ||
-                    line1.slice(0,8) === "https://";
-                ) {
-                   link = line1.trim();
+                // Strip HTML tags to extract bare URL
+                // Google Calendar often wraps URLs in <a href="...">...</a>
+                var hrefMatch = line1.match(/href=["']([^"']+)["']/);
+                if (hrefMatch) {
+                   link = hrefMatch[1].trim();
+                } else {
+                   var stripped = line1.replace(/<[^>]*>/g, '').trim();
+                   if (stripped.match(/^https?:\/\//)) {
+                      link = stripped;
+                   }
                 }
              }